This dissertation is a philosophical analysis of religious emotions. It draws upon
Thomas Aquinas’s theory of the passions to build and apply a framework for thinking
about religious emotions and their role in the spiritual life. The first two...

Edgework is the practice of voluntarily placing oneself in a high-risk situation as means to escape the increasingly constraining and mundane conditions of everyday living (Lyng 1990). Commodification (Adorno 2001) and rationalization (Ritzer 2004)...

This thesis describes 1) the kinetics of vapor phase place exchange reactions on films of gold monolayer protected clusters (Au MPCs) to alter the functionality of the Au MPCs, 2) applications of the reaction for altering chemiresistive sensing...

Lonicera maackii (amur honeysuckle) is an aggressive alien shrub that invades many habitats in the Eastern United States, including along streambanks. This study investigated the direct and indirect effects of L. maackii invasion on leaf litter...

The thesis deals with the political career of John Marshall Harlan prior to his appointment in 1877 as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Throughout the majority of those twenty-three active years in Kentucky politics, Harlan...

Placing judges, from left, Sam McMeekin, Sherman Goodpaster & William Shelley, Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky. The men stand in a row on a white floor, wearing suits and hats; the two men on the sides have binoculars hanging around their...

No other poet has given to the world such a diversity of woman characters as has Robert Browning. Longing for variety he represents his womanhood, not in classes but by individual differentiation; he portrays the simple, the complex, the subtle,...

Mayor Neville Miller of Louisville, Kentucky with Louise Schuble, bending down placing dimes in a row. The photograph has been painted on, accentuating small details, cracked around the edges, and discolored from age. Stamped on back of image:...

Address: 501 Main Street, Shelbyville, Ky. Construction was completed in 1913 for this building that houses the administrative offices of county government and the District and Circuit Courts. It was built in the Beaux-Art Classicism style of...

A piece of dairy processing equipment is operated by a worker dressed in all white, and wearing a white hat. The automated portion of the process appears to take empty glass bottles, fill them with milk, and then cap the bottles. The worker is...

Two scenes, one of three people picking oranges and placing them in baskets, and the other of a man, woman and two children in the snow. The people in the "Florida" scene are in an orange grove. A man stands on a ladder, a woman takes...

“Moreau has rendered Salome as an enchantress, the archetypal femme fatale who seduces Herod into performing her will. Moreau was very careful to avoid endowing the figure of Herod with any magisterial dignity but rather shows him as an old man,...

Lithograph billboard poster. "Koons followed up this poster with a series of explicit, human-scale, photo-based 'paintings' of the couple having sex. Characteristically, Koons asserted that his concerns were far removed from pornography. He...

Lithograph billboard poster. "Koons followed up this poster with a series of explicit, human-scale, photo-based 'paintings' of the couple having sex. Characteristically, Koons asserted that his concerns were far removed from pornography. He...